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Category: American Empire
Caitlin Johnstone: Another Journalist Arrested in Western Nation For Wrongthink About Israel
The best way to keep us all mindlessly marching along to the beat of this capitalist dystopia is to deceive us into thinking that we are free.
Imperial Presidency Marches On
As he was sworn in for a second time, Donald Trump openly declared America to be a territorial empire that would expand, even to Mars, reports Joe Lauria.
Caity Johnstone: Biden Was Just That Bad
Trump will do many evil things but none will reverse the fact that Biden just spent four years advancing genocide, nuclear brinkmanship and authoritarianism.
AS`AD AbuKHALIL: A History of Foreign Intrigue in Lebanon
The U.S. took advantage of a changing regional and domestic environment to make a favorable arrangement for itself this time. But the notion that it can drag Lebanon into the pro-Israeli orbit of the Gulf will prove illusory.
It Is Happening, While It’s Happening
The words of playwright Harold Pinter’s 2005 Nobel Prize acceptance speech speak volumes about outlets like Consortium News and the so-called anti-disinformation industry.
Caitlin Johnstone: US Says It’s Genocide … in Sudan
While indirectly backing the genocidal atrocities it now denounces in Sudan, the Biden administration pushes through an $8 billion weapons shipment to Israel as a blood-soaked punctuation mark on the U.S. president’s far-too-long political career.
WATCH: A History of Expansion
CN Editor-in-Chief Joe Lauria joined the Rachel Blevins Show to discuss the incoming Trump regime in the context of a history of U.S. territorial expansion in a world that increasingly opposes it.
CN’s Most Read List of 2024
From Julian Assange, to the deindustrialized north of England, the ongoing war in Ukraine and the genocide in Gaza, here are Consortium News‘ most read articles of 2024.
Patrick Lawrence: Our World of Wars, Our War of Worlds
The U.S. imperium is effectively spoiling for decisive confrontations with any power that threatens its crumbling primacy.